Re: [phpesp-dev] Support visual formatting of "follow-up" survey questions

[Franky V. L. <lie...@te...>]

I already figured that out :-)
I don't object to it myself, but it should be clear to the survey designer
when creating his questions ...

Franky


On 1/25/08, Bishop Bettini <ph...@id...> wrote:
>
> I started with !other (yes, changing its label with !other=Foobarbaz),
> but that wasn't what I needed ... unless I was mis-using it.
>
> As I understand it, !other allows you to add in write-in responses
> **to a list of predetermined choices**.  I don't want the respondent
> to write in another choice, I want them to explain their choice.  So,
> in my case, I want to give them a list of say 5 options.  I want to
> require them to choose from that list.  Then, I want to give them the
> option of explaining their choice in greater detail.  That explanation
> is a follow-up to the first question, not a question that stands alone
> of its own merit.
>
> Thoughts?
> bishop
>
>
> Quoting Matthew Gregg <mat...@gm...>:
>
> > It won't look like an essay question and may not be what you want but
> > !other does something like this.  Maybe you could expand that?
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 07:26 -0500, Bishop Bettini wrote:
> >> Hi Franky,
> >>
> >> In my case, it's visual.  Showing the follow-up question isn't
> >> "conditional" on the previous answer, but rather allows "expansion" on
> >> the previous answer.
> >>
> >> Like, suppose you have these two question:
> >>
> >> Please tell us how satisfied you were with our service:
> >> ( ) Very satisfied
> >> ( ) About usual
> >> ( ) Very dissatisfied
> >>
> >> Please list any particular experiences you had that led you to that
> >>  response:
> >> /----------------------\
> >> |                      |
> >> |                      |
> >> \----------------------/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The second question doesn't stand on its own -- it's answer is only
> >> meaningful in light of the first answer.  Similarly, the choice made
> >> for the first answer doesn't drive whether to show the second
> >> question: you always show it, but you want to visually indicate that
> >> the essay box question "follows up" to the radio question.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >> bishop
> >>
> >>
> >> Quoting Franky Van Liedekerke <lie...@te...>:
> >>
> >> > Hi Bishop,
> >> >
> >> > doesn't conditions already foresee such a functionality (show a
> question
> >> > when the answer to a previous question meets some conditions)? Or is
> this
> >> > only a visual thing?
> >> >
> >> > Franky
> >> >
> >> > On 1/25/08, Bishop Bettini <ph...@id...> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> All,
> >> >>
> >> >> I've made the following modification to my local branch, but I
> didn't
> >> >> know if it was something the community wanted.  If so, I'll commit
> to
> >> >> trunk.  There's an example screen-shot attached.
> >> >>
> >> >> Issue 940:
> >> >> In some scenarios, one question follows up another. For example, you
> >> >> might ask to rate your experience with a particular subject, then
> >> >> provide an open-ended justification for that rating.  These aren't
> >> >> logically "next" questions, and should not therefore be numbered as
> >> >> such.  They should also be visually "tied" the previous question, so
> >> >> as to form a mental association between the two.  Finally, these
> >> >> aren't new question types, but a relationship between questions.
> >> >>
> >> >> Implement this by name sequencing.  If this question name begins
> with
> >> >> exactly the same name as the previous question, it's a
> follow-up.  For
> >> >> example "q1" followed by a "q1_comments" question will key that
> >> >> "q1_comments" is a follow-up.  There are, however, still two
> separate
> >> >> questions in the database.  We are simply indicating the association
> >> >> by the question names.
> >> >>
> >> >> bishop
> >> >>
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